Predictors of missed hospital appointments in patients with posterior compartment pelvic floor disorders in a tertiary referral centre by Tanzeela Gala, Mehak Saini, Abigail Fernandes, Carlotta Sarzo, Noman Shahzad, Carlene Igbedioh, Alexis Schizas, Linda Ferrari, Alison Hainsworth

“…Missed appointments recorded were: TTAC — 45 (2.2%), BFC — 309 (15.8%), EAUS — 476(24%), PFUS — 484(37.2%) and DP — 432(26.2%).Predictors determined were: Male gender, age <50 years, complaints of rectal pain and bleeding for missing telephone and face-to-face appointments, low socioeconomic status for missing face-to-face appointments, and mixed and other ethnic groups with missing telephone appointments. …”
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Attitudes and perceptions of health schools’ students toward mobile learning: a cross-sectional study by Faten Hamad, Suha AlMuhaissen, Christine Urquhart, Ruba Tarawneh, Muzdalifa Asaad, Mays Abu-Ajamieh

“…This research aims to investigate the attitudes of health schools’ students in Jordan towards mobile learning, as well as their perceptions of mobile learning advantages and disadvantages compared to the traditional face-to-face learning model. Methods A quantitative research design was employed, with data collected through a web-based cross-sectional descriptive questionnaire using Google® Forms. …”
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Impact of telephone follow-up on COPD outcomes in pulmonary rehabilitation patients: A randomized clinical trial by Stefanie Tonguino Rosero, Juan Carlos Ávila Valencia, Jhonatan Betancourt Peña

“…All patients received 24 sessions of PR, which included face-to-face education sessions. In addition, the experimental group received telephone calls twice a week to reinforce the face-to-face educational content. …”
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Characteristics of strong mine pressure manifestation in composite hard roofs and determination of main controlling layers by LI Yanjun

“…The results showed that during the initial mining phase of the composite hard roof working face, the collapse was concentrated in the lower hard roof, with periodic fractures creating periodic pressure on the working face. …”
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Deformation Mechanism and Control Technology of the Surrounding Rock of the Floor Roadway under the Influence of Mining by Qingchong Zhao, Baojie Fu, Jiadi Yin

“…Deformation and failure mechanism of the surrounding rock of the floor roadway under the influence of working face mining is complicated, and roadway control is difficult. …”
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Electromagnetic deformable mirror fabricated using silicon micromachining and stress-resilient assembly by Wenkuan (Kevin) Man, Thomas Bifano

“…Introduction: This work presents a prototype electromagnetic actuation deformable mirror (DM) assembly with stress-resilient face sheet design.Methods: The DM face sheet design includes slender micromachined silicon pillars that are integrated with a silicon face sheet to reduce unpowered face sheet surface distortion caused by actuator adhesion stress.Results: The assembled deformable mirror prototype allowed bi-directional actuation with total stroke exceeding 20 μm. …”
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SOURCES THAT MANAGERS PREFER FOR BUSINESS INFORMATION NEEDS by Çiğdem Baskıcı

“…In order to answer this question, face-to-face interviews were carriedout with a total of 327 business managers working in various sectors.Information sources are encoded by using content analysis with personal andnon-personal, internal and external dimensions. …”
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L’hybridation dans l’enseignement universitaire pour repenser l’articulation entre cours magistraux et travaux dirigés by Caroline Ladage

“…Hybrid teaching practices combining face-to-face teaching and on-line teaching are diversifying since the last ten years. …”
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STATIC ANALYSIS AND FREE VIBRATION ANALYSIS OF THE PYRAMIDAL LATTICE SANDWICH STRUCTURE BASED ON LAYERWISE/SOLID-ELEMENTS METHOD by QIAN RuoLi, GUO QiaoRong, WANG RuiPeng, LI DingHe

“…And then,based on the governing equations of the face sheets and core,the finial governing equation of sandwich structure was assembled by using the compatibility conditions,which was used to ensure the compatibility of displacements at the interface between face sheets and core. …”
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« Vue d’un sling » by Geoff Mains

“…The superposition of the hospital world and the leather world allow him to bring face to face the discourse of power and medicine and that of the leather community. …”
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Laypersons’ Esthetic Perception of Different Dentogingival Characteristics Based on Smile Dynamics: Cross-Sectional Study by Adriana S. Malheiros, Julianne R. Barboza, Sebastião M. Pinheiro Neto, Daniela B. Dibai, Etevaldo M. Maia Filho, Célia Maio Pinzan-Vercelino, Meire C. Ferreira, Rudys R. J. Tavarez

“…One video focused on the mouth, whereas the other focused on the entire face of the model, to ensure that the dynamics of the smile could be evaluated. …”
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Robustness evaluation of commercial liveness detection platform by Pengcheng WANG, Haibin ZHENG, Jianfei ZOU, Ling PANG, Hu LI, Jinyin CHEN

“…Liveness detection technology has become an important application in daily life, and it is used in scenarios including mobile phone face unlock, face payment, and remote authentication.However, if attackers use fake video generation technology to generate realistic face-swapping videos to attack the living body detection system in the above scenarios, it will pose a huge threat to the security of these scenarios.Aiming at this problem, four state-of-the-art Deepfake technologies were used to generate a large number of face-changing pictures and videos as test samples, and use these samples to test the online API interfaces of commercial live detection platforms such as Baidu and Tencent.The test results show that the detection success rate of Deepfake images is generally very low by the major commercial live detection platforms currently used, and they are more sensitive to the quality of images, and the false detection rate of real images is also high.The main reason for the analysis may be that these platforms were mainly designed for traditional living detection attack methods such as printing photo attacks, screen remake attacks, and silicone mask attacks, and did not integrate advanced face-changing detection technology into their liveness detection.In the algorithm, these platforms cannot effectively deal with Deepfake attacks.Therefore, an integrated live detection method Integranet was proposed, which was obtained by integrating four detection algorithms for different image features.It could effectively detect traditional attack methods such as printed photos and screen remakes.It could also effectively detect against advanced Deepfake attacks.The detection effect of Integranet was verified on the test data set.The results show that the detection success rate of Deepfake images by proposed Integranet detection method is at least 35% higher than that of major commercial live detection platforms.…”
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Upper-Bound Finite Element Adaptive Analysis of Plane Strain Heading in Soil with a Soft Upper Layer and Hard Lower Layer by Jian Zhang, Li Ding, Yu Liang, Jingyao Zong, Zhenya Li

“…The σs increases with tunnel depth, and it increases when the position of the soil interface moves up along the tunnel face. The failure mechanism primarily involves a wedge-shaped zone around the tunnel face and two slip lines originating from the top and bottom of the tunnel face, and it is mainly influenced by three factors, i.e., the position of the soil interface, the soil properties, and the tunnel depth. …”
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Support Vector Machine Based on Adaptive Acceleration Particle Swarm Optimization by Mohammed Hasan Abdulameer, Siti Norul Huda Sheikh Abdullah, Zulaiha Ali Othman

“…Existing face recognition methods utilize particle swarm optimizer (PSO) and opposition based particle swarm optimizer (OPSO) to optimize the parameters of SVM. …”
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Investigation of Free Vibration Behavior for Composite Sandwich Beams with a Composite Honeycomb Core by Zainab Majid Jasim, Husam Jawad Abdulsamad

“…The purpose of the current research is to determine the effect of fiber type, volume ratio, and matrix type on the vibration properties of sandwich beams made of composite face sheet and core. The typical sandwich structure consists of three layers: face sheets, core, and adhesive bonding, and in this research, the adhesive layer between the face sheets and core was abolished by preparing the overall mold with fibers inside and casting the resin to fill the face sheet and core parts. …”
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Goaf Gas Control Improvement by Optimizing the Adjacent Roadway Large-Diameter Boreholes by Wei Wang, Zongxiang Li, Hongming Yu

“…The optimal borehole configuration parameters ensuring the extraction flow rate exceeding 3 m·s−1 and the effective gas control in the upper corner of the working face at a distance of 5 m–15 m behind the working face were identified. …”
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COVID-19, school closures, and remote teaching: The response time of Brazilian education systems by Roberta dos Reis Neuhold, Márcio Rogério Olivato Pozzer

“…In educational institutions, these measures resulted in the suspension of face-to-face classes, a process known as school closures. …”
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Numerical Simulation of the Volumetric Strain Distribution of a Protected Coal Seam by Hengyi Jia

“…It was found that the x-direction strain is mainly distributed near the coal pillars on both sides and inside the goaf, the y-direction strain is mainly distributed at the working face, the initial mining line, and inside the goaf, and the z-direction strain is mainly distributed at the working face, the initial mining line, the coal pillars on both sides, and inside the goaf. …”
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Sistem Pengenalan Wajah 3D Menggunakan ICP dan SVM by Nadya Viana De Lima, Ledya Novamizanti, Eko Susatio

“…Attendance systems with faces, recognizing criminals with CCTV are some of the applications of face recognition. …”
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Point of Care Ultrasound (POCUS) Utilization and Barriers by Senior Emergency Medicine and Critical Care Residents at Two Teaching Referral Hospitals, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia by Ayalew Zewdie Tadesse, Temesgen Beyene Abicho, Dirijit Mamo Alemu, Anne Aspler

“…Forty-two (55.3%) residents preferred to complete face-to-face teaching, while 33 (43.4%) preferred blended learning both face-to-face and online. …”
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